“LA DIOSA RAZÓN” BY THE BROTHERS MACHADO

Malaga / The Unicaja Foundation has signed an agreement with the heirs of Antonio and Manuel Machado to acquire a legacy of 4,570 pages, mostly handwritten, which are drafts, letters and unpublished teathre plays like “La Diosa Razón” a play of customs written by four hands.

“La Diosa Razón” is a drama in three acts, located in France at the time of the Revolution in 1789, and it has as its protagonist Teresa Cabarrús, a real character of the Madrid nobility.

Among the pages, there are several drafts of another theatrical piece, “Adriana Lecouvreur”, about the famous actress of La Comedie Française who revolutionized the art of interpretation in the late eighteenth century; and “Las tardes en la Moncloa”, an incomplete text on which there were few information.

Other drafts are already known works by the brothers Machado as “El hombre que murió en la guerra”, “Julianillo Valcárcel”, “La duquesa de Benamejí”, “La prima Fernanda”, “La Lola se va a los puertos” or “Las adelfas”, as well as several works by Calderón and Lope de Vega adapted by the authors from Seville.

The largest number of manuscripts belongs to Manuel Machado, among them, those of “El mal poema”.

By Antonio Machado, there are new drafts of well-known poems and some other unpublished ones, as well as texts in prose.

It highlights a 103-page workbook, which is an extension of the well-known Cuaderno de Literatura, published by the Unicaja Foundation when it acquired another part of the Machadian legacy in 2003 by public auction. It covers from the dawn of Spanish literature to the time of the Catholic Monarchs.

In addition, there are some twenty handwritten letters, unknown until now, crossed between various members of the family and, among them, the one directed by Antonio Machado’s wife to her mother-in-law, the only known manuscript of Leonor. (May 18, 2018, EFE/Practica Español)